Makiritare women make bread from manioc roots after removing a poison by squeezing the scraped and shredded remains in mammoth hand-woven basket-tubes. From the flour they make yucca or cassava bread, a staple of the Makiritare diet. The bread is toasted on a flat piece of iron and tossed onto the roof of a house to dry.
Films » Manioc Bread
Manioc Bread
Alternative Title: N/A
Series Title: Indians of the Orinoco
Summary:
Description:
Edited Film
Country/Location: Venezuela (Kononama)
Tribe or Group: Makiritare
Cinematographer: Hermann Schlenker
Production Company: IFF
Running Time: 11 min.
Years Filmed: 1971
Decade Produced: 1970s
Years Distributed: -1972
Film Gauge: 16mm
Stock: Color Safety
Footage Count: 400'
Sound: Un-narrated, Recorded On Location
Notes: Possible that footage pre-existed and was contracted by IFF for this series. IFF does not own OCN- returned to Schlenker after production of internegatives (?). There are 8 films in the Indians of the Orinoco series (all footage shot during the same expedition).
